Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : January 12

Check all the award winners born on January 12.
BirthDate
Winner
12-January-1991

Dronavalli Harika (India)

Dronavalli Harika is an Indian chess grandmaster. She gradually came to prominence winning the...
12-January-1991

Pixie Lott (England)

Victoria Louise "Pixie" Lott is an English singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. Her debut...
12-January-1987

Naya Rivera (United States of America)

Naya Marie Rivera is an American actress and singer, known for playing Santana Lopez on Fox...
12-January-1986

Kieron Richardson (England)

Kieron Mark Richardson is an English actor best known for playing the role of Ste Hay in...
12-January-1986

Gemma Arterton (United Kingdom)

Gemma Christina Arterton is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in St Trinian's,...
12-January-1985

Yohana Cobo (Spain)

Yohana Cobo is a Spanish film and television actress, best-known for her role as Penélope Cruz's...
12-January-1982

Sarah Utterback (United States of America)

Sarah Utterback is an American actress, most notable for her role as Nurse Olivia Harper on...
12-January-1982

Shawn Desman (Canada)

Shawn Bosco Fernandes, better known by his stage name Shawn Desman, is a Canadian pop/R&B...
12-January-1981

Aydar Gainullin (Russia)

Aydar Gainullin is a composer.
12-January-1980

Amerie (United States of America)

Amerie Mi Marie Rogers, known professionally as Amerie or Ameriie, is an American recording...
12-January-1979

Lee Bo-young (South Korea)

Bo-young Lee is an actress.
12-January-1978

Anne Sewitsky (Norway)

Anne Sewitsky is a film director.
12-January-1977

Piolo Pascual (Philippines)

Piolo José Pascual is a Filipino film and television actor, musician, model, and producer.
12-January-1976

Miki Nakatani (Japan)

Miki Nakatani is a Japanese actress and singer.
12-January-1973

Sakshi Tanwar (India)

Sakshi Tanwar is an Indian television and Bollywood actress. She is best known for playing the...
12-January-1973

ZZ Packer (United States of America)

ZZ Packer is an African-American author, notable for her works of short fiction.
12-January-1972

Le Thi Diem Thuy (United States of America)

Lê Thị Diễm Thúy is a Vietnamese American poet, novelist, and performer. Her pen name is...
12-January-1970

Kaja Foglio (United States of America)

Kaja Foglio is a Seattle-based writer, artist, and publisher. Foglio co-won the first Hugo Award...
12-January-1970

Edouard Weil (France)

Edouard Weil is a film producer.
12-January-1969

Stéphane Stoecklin

Stéphane Stoecklin is a French handball player and World champion. He received bronze medals...
12-January-1969

Paul Collins (United States of America)

Paul Collins is an American writer, editor and associate professor of English at Portland State...
12-January-1966

Ingrid Jensen (Canada)

Ingrid Jensen is a Canadian jazz trumpet player. Jensen is a graduate of the Berklee College of...
12-January-1966

Olivier Martinez (France)

Olivier Martinez is a French film actor. He became known after roles in several French films...
12-January-1963

François Girard (Canada)

François Girard is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his...
12-January-1963

Nando Reis (Brazil)

Nando Reis is a Brazilian musician and producer, best known as the former bassist and lead...
12-January-1962

Gunde Svan (Sweden)

Gunde Svan is a former Swedish cross-country skier and auto racing driver. During his career he...
12-January-1961

Margaret Nagle (United States of America)

Margaret Nagle is a screenwriter and television producer. She has been nominated for two Emmy...
12-January-1961

Rick Miller

Rick Miller is an actor and a stuntman.
12-January-1960

Oliver Platt (United States of America, Canada)

Oliver James Platt is an American actor. He starred in the Showtime original series, The Big C...
12-January-1960

Dan Neil (United States of America)

Dan Neil appeared in The Revenge of the Electric Car documentary film.
12-January-1960

Dominique Wilkins (United States of America)

Jacques Dominique Wilkins is a retired American professional basketball player who primarily...
12-January-1960

Jonathan Myerson (United Kingdom)

Jonathan Myerson is a screenwriter.
12-January-1958

Christiane Amanpour (United Kingdom, Iran, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Christiane Amanpour is CNNs chief international correspondent based in New York. Amanpour has...
12-January-1957

John Lasseter (United States of America)

John Alan Lasseter is an American animator, film director, screenwriter, producer and the chief...
12-January-1957

Jeremy Sams (United Kingdom)

Jeremy Sams is a British theatre director, writer, translator, orchestrator, musical director,...
12-January-1953

Mary Harron (Canada)

Mary Harron is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter best known for her films I Shot Andy...
12-January-1952

Walter Mosley (United States of America)

Walter Ellis Mosley is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He...
12-January-1952

Ricky Van Shelton (United States of America)

Ricky Van Shelton is a retired American country music artist. Active between 1986 and 2006, he...
12-January-1951

Earl Howard (United States of America)

Earl Howard is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, saxophonist, synthesizer player and...
12-January-1951

Kirstie Alley (United States of America)

Kirstie Louise Alley is an American actress and comedian known for her role in the TV series...
12-January-1950

Randy Jones (United States of America)

Randy Jones is a screenwriter, television director and producer.
12-January-1950

Franco Piersanti (Italy)

Franco Piersanti is an Italian composer and conductor. Born in Rome in 1950, he graduated in...
12-January-1949

Haruki Murakami (Japan)

Haruki Murakami is a best-selling Japanese writer. His works of fiction and non-fiction have...
12-January-1949

David Luban (United States of America)

David Luban is a 1989 Guggenheim Fellow in Law.
12-January-1949

Paul Barresi (United States of America)

Paul Barresi is an American actor, pornographic film director, a former private investigator,...
12-January-1948

Brendan Foster (United Kingdom)

Brendan Foster CBE is a British former long-distance runner who founded the Great North Run. He...
12-January-1948

Anthony Andrews (United Kingdom)

Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews is an English actor best known for his role as Lord Sebastian Flyte...
12-January-1948

William Nicholson (England)

William Nicholson, FRSL is a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist who has been...
12-January-1947

Aaron Fogel (United States of America)

Aaron Fogel is an American poet.
12-January-1946

George Duke (United States of America)

George Duke was an American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer...
12-January-1946

André DeShields (United States of America)

André De Shields is an American actor, singer, director, dancer, acclaimed novelist,...
12-January-1946

Henrietta Branford (United Kingdom, India)

Henrietta Branford was an English author of children's books. Her greatest success was Fire, Bed...
12-January-1945

Gregor Rottschalk (Germany)

Gregor Rottschalk is a lyricist, author, record producer, and presenter.
12-January-1944

Jim Gray (United States of America)

James Nicholas "Jim" Gray was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in...
12-January-1944

Ritchie Yorke

Ritchie Yorke is an Australian-born author, broadcaster, historian and music journalist. Born in...
12-January-1943

Howard Cedar

Howard Cedar or Haim Cedar is an Israeli American biochemist who worked on DNA methylation, the...
12-January-1942

(Mexico)

Jorge Velazco was a 1987 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
12-January-1942

Michel Mayor (Switzerland)

Michel G. E. Mayor is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of...
12-January-1941

Long John Baldry (United Kingdom)

John William "Long John" Baldry was an English blues singer and a voice actor. He sang with many...
12-January-1940

Matthias Habich (Germany)

Matthias Habich is a German actor. Habich was born in Danzig and lives in Paris. In the 2001...
12-January-1938

Monika Schindler (Germany)

Monika Schindler is a film and TV editor.
12-January-1937

Marie Dubois (France)

Marie Dubois is a French actress. She made her film debut in 1959, and first gained notice in...
12-January-1936

Peter A. Beak (United States of America)

Peter A. Beak is a 1968 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
12-January-1935

Robert Guenette (United States of America)

Robert Guenette was a screenwriter, film director and producer and, television director and...
12-January-1934

Bob Dishy (United States of America)

Bob Dishy is an American actor of stage, film and television. He is married to former actress...
12-January-1934

Gene Persson (United States of America)

Eugene Persson was an American actor, theatrical and film producer. He was, perhaps, best known...
12-January-1934

James Fergason (United States of America)

James Lee Fergason was an American inventor and business entrepreneur. A member of the National...
12-January-1933

Liliana Cavani (Italy, Kingdom of Italy)

Liliana Cavani is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She belongs to a generation of...
12-January-1932

Des O'Connor (England)

Desmond Bernard O'Connor, CBE is an English comedian and singer. A former chat show host, he was...
12-January-1932

Arthur Weinthal (Canada)

Arthur Weinthal is a production manager, TV producer and radio producer.
12-January-1932

Keith J. Miller (England)

12-January-1930

Edgar Lansbury (United Kingdom)

Edgar Lansbury is an award-winning British theatre, film, and television producer. Born in...
12-January-1930

Jennifer Johnston (Republic of Ireland)

Jennifer Johnston is an Irish novelist. She has won a number of awards including the Whitbread...
12-January-1929

Alasdair MacIntyre (United Kingdom, United States of America)

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre is a Scottish philosopher primarily known for his contribution to...
12-January-1929

Turner Cassity (United States of America)

Turner Cassity was an American poet, playwright, and short story writer.
12-January-1929

Jaakko Hintikka (Finland)

Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka is a Finnish philosopher and logician. Hintikka was born in...
12-January-1928

Juan Carlos Agulla (Argentina)

Juan Carlos Agulla was a 1964 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
12-January-1927

Leopoldo Federico (Argentina)

Leopoldo Federico is a musician.
12-January-1927

Leslie Orgel (United Kingdom)

Leslie Eleazer Orgel FRS was a British chemist.
12-January-1926

Ray Price (United States of America)

Noble Ray Price was an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His wide...
12-January-1926

Morton Feldman (United States of America)

Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City. A major figure in 20th century...
12-January-1923

Pierre Versins (France)

Pierre Versins was a French Science Fiction collector and scholar. From 1957-62, he published a...
12-January-1920

James L. Farmer, Jr. (United States of America)

James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights activist and leader in the American Civil Rights...
12-January-1919

Hans Richter (Germany)

Hans Richter was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1931 and 1984...
12-January-1918

Leonard B. Meyer (United States of America)

Leonard B. Meyer was a composer, author, and philosopher. He contributed major works in the...
12-January-1918

John Thompson McKellar Anderson (United Kingdom)

Major John Thompson McKellar Anderson VC DSO was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the...
12-January-1916

Austin Wehrwein (United States of America)

Austin Wehrwein is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer and journalist.
12-January-1915

Martin Agronsky (United States of America)

Martin Agronsky was an American journalist and host of the television program Agronsky & Company.
12-January-1915

Norman Cohn (United Kingdom)

Norman Rufus Colin Cohn FBA was a British academic, historian and writer who spent fourteen...
12-January-1914

Orlando Villas Bôas (Brazil)

Orlando Villas Bôas was a 1972 Guggenheim Fellow in Social Sciences.
12-January-1910

Mary Haas (United States of America)

Mary Rosamund Haas was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages,...
12-January-1910

Francis Russell (United States of America)

Francis Russell was an American author specializing in American history and historical figures...
12-January-1910

Patsy Kelly (United States of America)

Patsy Kelly was an American stage, radio, film and television actress. She is best known for her...
12-January-1910

Luise Rainer (Germany, United States of America)

Luise Rainer is a retired German-born Austrian and American film actress. She was the first...
12-January-1909

Barbro Alving

Barbro Alving was a Swedish journalist and writer, a pacifist and feminist, often using the...
12-January-1908

Jean Delannoy (France)

Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director. Although Delannoy...
12-January-1899

Paul Hermann Müller (Switzerland)

Paul Hermann Müller also known as Pauly Mueller was a Swiss chemist who received the 1948 Nobel...
12-January-1894

Robert Downie (United Kingdom)

Robert Downie VC, MM was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
12-January-1893

Eddie Selzer (United States of America)

Edward "Eddie" Selzer was an American film producer, most noted as the producer of Warner Bros...
12-January-1890

Frank Chester Robertson (United States of America)

Frank Chester Robertson was an American author best known for his western novels. He published...
12-January-1874

Laura Adams Armer (United States of America)

Laura Adams Armer was an American artist and writer. In 1932, her novel Waterless Mountain won...
12-January-1869

Bhagwan Das (India)

Bhagwan Das was an Indian Theosophist and public figure. For a time he served in the Central...
12-January-1836

William Goate (United Kingdom)

William Goate VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
12-January-1826

Joseph Petrus Hendrik Crowe (United Kingdom, South Africa)

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Petrus Hendrik Crowe VC was the second South African-born recipient of...
12-January-1812

Ercole Dembowski (Italy)

Ercole Dembowski was an Italian astronomer. He was born in Milan. He inherited the title of...